[mistb0rn-]

Doctors without a frontier? It's sad though, I think many europeans would like to donate money for people in need, but when you find out things like this ... Americans really managed to ruin this as well.

[MistahKoala]

Mystified as to why you seem to think this is in some way an American problem. We have lots of fake charities in the EU.

[jopsen]

In the EU charities aren't as big... Or as well branded. At least not the sketchy ones.

Most big charities I know in the EU have good records... Particularly the state-sponsored ones.

- to be fair I could be uninformed :)

[MistahKoala]

I don't think that's at all true. There are many large organisations that spend a significant amount on staffing and marketing, masquerading as charities. The state-sponsored ones are some of the worst, as they're recycling taxpayers' money to lobby the governments that pay them, with a revolving door of lucrative executive and lobbying jobs keeping it all afloat.

[mcv]

Some EU charities are huge. The Red Cross has branches everywhere in the EU. Greenpeace's main office is in Netherland. Those are two massive brands.

[jacalata]

Already said in this thread, but to make sure you see it:

> The American Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross are independent organizations, with very different reputations.

[austinheap]

Charities around the world are run unethically. It's far from an American-exclusive thing.

[orf]

Sure, but the extent of it seems to be American exclusive. Are there not a bunch of cancer charities that simply do nothing but enrich the owners?

[thechao]

Perhaps Americans are more diligent in tracking down bad actors?

[vkou]

Americans give more money to charities, because the services they tend to provide are provided by governments in Europe.

Hence, there's more charities, more attention given to them, etc.